identd's -l option no longer logs the host which has
contacted it. While identd is a small eough program to be
"safe" I still want a log of who's querying the system.
(All TCP connections should be loggable for security
auditing purposes.) I would at least recommend changing the
entry in /etc/inetd.conf to read:
auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
in.identd -l -e -o
So that tcpd can log the host id for you.

Suggested configuration change works. The documentation and comments in config
file could be clearer about use of syslog-level. As it stands it's not
immediately obvious that setting it to a value other than none enables
additional logging rather than just "redirecting" the basic log messages.
Close this or reassign it for documentation at your discretion.